When Clara
Greenspan left Montreal for Warsaw to visit relatives she could not have
known how her personal destiny would soon become intertwined with the
events about to unfold in Europe. While there, she was introduced to,
and married a man named Chaim and was then mistakenly informed by the
British Embassy that when she returned to Canada she could then send for
her husband.

What began
as a whirlwind romance turned into a battle of endurance against her own
government whose policy allowed Canadian men to bring over their foreign-born
spouses, but forbade the same liberty to women.

Set in Canada,
Poland, Russia and Germany between 1938 and 1947, My
Dear Clara weaves love letters, personal diaries, family
photographs, official correspondence and rarely-seen archival footage
to tell the dramatic story of a Polish Jewish refugee’s struggle
for survival and his Canadian wife’s unflinching dedication.

CRITICAL
ACCLAIM

“...much
more than history. It's an epic love story, so tangible that the two protagonists
move the viewer to depths of emotion that don't usually mark documentaries.”
– The Canadian Jewish News, 2001

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$29.95

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